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enoindre (1155)
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The form enaindre is a cross reference to the following entry:

enoindre (1155)

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enaindre,  enhoindre,  ennoindre,  enuindre,  enuingdre;  inoindre  
  FEW:  unguere 14,36b Gdf:  enoindre 3,210a GdfC: ∅ TL: enoindre 3,472b DEAF:  oindre (enoindre)  DMF:  enoindre  TLF: ∅ OED:  enoine v.  / anoint v.  / anoint a.  MED:  enoinen v.  / enointen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to bedaub: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  oblitam: enhoint  TLL ii 106
( MS: s.xiii )  lino, -nis: enoindre  TLL ii 118
♦cosmet.to grease: 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii2 )  et puis enuindre les chevousz de seim de urs  Orn Dames 90
♦med. to smear (with ointment): 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  si enoygn [...] les meins et les plantes des peez de cel oyle  Med Pres1 134.13
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  qe mes plaies peussent estre [...] lavez et enoyntez  Sz Med1 126
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  la neire pere qe est appellé celidonius [..] triblez od ewe e inoignez les oilz  A-N Med ii 221.51
♦ to apply an aromatic ointment to, embalm: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Le cors ont mult bel conreé, Overt, enoint e enbasmé  Rom de Rou wace ii 229.9254
2eccl.liturgicalto anoint, consecrate in a ceremony of Christian blessing: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Li archevesques morz esteit, Ki enuindre le rei deveit  Brut WACE 6528
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Que Jesu nostre salveur M’at enuint par sa grant dulçur  S Edw barking 2196
3to soak (wool) in oil: 
( s.xiv )  qe nul hom de la ville merret ou ferreyt mesner hors de la ville layne enoynte a filer et peigner  Bristol Red Bk ii 29
♦to sprinkle with: 
( 1316 )  engettre saffran hors du sak e le enoyndre ou  (ed. on) baigner en eawe  Grocers Ap II
4fig.to beguile: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  la losengerie del mauveis homme [...] point ne m’enoindra  Ancren2 28.10
enoindre a, en
eccl.liturgicalto anoint as, consecrate in a ceremony of Christian blessing: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Sadoc prist un corn a ulie del tabernacle e enuinst a rei Salomun  Liv Reis1 112
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  […] fust enoint […] en rei  Reis Engl1 50

p.p. as a.

eccl.liturgicalanointed, consecrated in a ceremony of Christian blessing: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  li Engleis [...] Orent tuit receu baptesme, De funz levé, enoint de cresme  Brut WACE 13816
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii1 )  Les uns cum reys enoinz esteint  Purg S Pat first anon 1237

p.p. as s.

theol.Anointed One, the Messiah: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Ceo dist Nostre Seignur a Cyre: 'moun enoynt'  TREVET Cron1 75.2

See also:

enointer 
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